The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1876, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE ADJOURNED CONFERENCE. Concessions Made to Turkish Sensibility. FEARS OF TURKISH STUBBORNNESS. Destruction of Ships and Loss of Life by the Recent Gale. THE ENGLISH GRAIN TRADE. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD, } Lonvoy, Dec, 27, 1876. On Christmas Day most people stay at home in Eng- land, and ordinarily there is little worth noting occurs on that festival There is little of interest to report from the East, and people aro for the moment more concerned about the aceounts of shipwreck and loss of life which hourly come in than with the doings or sayings of the diplomatists at Constantinople THE COXPRAENCE TO MEET ON THURSDAY. ‘The statement that the Conference was to meet to- day tarns out to be incorrect. A despatch from Con- stantinople says:—‘‘The Vonference has adjourned un- til Thursday, and not Tuesday, as before reported. It 18 now stated that Mr. Eliiot, the British Minister, will not leave the city till the Conference has concluded its labors.” CONTRADICTORY REPORTS. ‘There are contradictory rumors, however, about tho movements of the British Minister to Constantinople. A despatch from Vienna says itis believed there that Sir H. G. Elliot will not return to Constantinople, but will be replaced by the Marquis of Salisbury. FOREIGN GOVERNOR, A despatch from Constantinople says that according to the project of reforms presented to the Porte by the plenipotentiarics the governors of the insurgent proy- Inces may be foreigners. CONCRSSIONS TO TURKISH SENSIBILITY, A Paris correspondent gives a detailed account of the occupation scheme derived from authentic sources and showing that very considerable concessions have been made to Turkish sensibilities in this partieu- lar. According to this scheme a corps of military gendarmeries will be recruited from volun- “Veors of tne neutral States. The corps will be under tho orders of the governors of provinces, It will wear Turkish badges, be paid by Turkey er the reformed provinces and constitute a reinforcement of the Turkish police. PRARS OF TURKITH RESISTANCE, Itis much feared that Turkey will resist nearly all the proposed reforms which the Powers consider tho minimum they are entitled to demand. It is thought at Constantinople that Sir H. G. Eliott, the British Ambassador, is in favor of resistance on the part of Turkey, and his departure is consiaered as reassuring for peace, ‘THE TURKS UNTIELDING. Adespatch from Pera says:—‘‘Midhat Pacha, in an unofficial interview with Lord Salisbury, refused to accept the proposition for an International Commission to superintend the reforms. Lord Salisbury, it is said, telegraphed for a steamer to be held in readiness to convey him to Athens if the Porte should continue unyielding, Great quantities of arms and ammunition are being reccived from America, The temper of the popula- tion is warlike, and the situation is critical, DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST RUSSIA, On Saturdsy the Softas made a demonstration be- fore the Russian Embassy, shouting, “Down with Rus- sha.” The Russian stoamers have coased running on the Black Sea. THE INTEREST ON THE TURKISH DEBT. The Porte is evidently determined on making one more attempt at retrieving its fimancial credit. A tele- gram from Constantinople says it is asserted that the decree of October, 1875, reducing the interest on tke debt, will shortly be annulled. The Porte will declare its intention to pay in full when cireamstances permit. Another despatch from Constantinople says the Porte ‘bas resolved to cancel the financial decree of 1875 im- mediately. ‘A TERRIBLY DESTRUCTIVE GALE. Accounts continue to arrive of wrecks on the north coast of Scotland and the Orkney Islands’ Particulars are known of various casualties, principally to smal! vessels from Scandinavian Baltic ports, involving the loss of twenty-five lives. Besides these a Norwegian brig has been wrecked at Burray Island with all hands. The number of drowned is not stated, A great quan- lity of wrecked stuff is reported in Pentland Firth, jin- cluding two unknown steamers, bottom upward. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. A Dundee correspondent telegraphs it is certain that at lenst 100 persons were drowned on the northeast coast of Scotland uuring Friday and Satarday, The Joss within a fortnight is estimated at the least at 250 men and 120 vessels, TH MURDER OF AN ENGLISH RESIDENT. A telegram from Singapore brings tbe intelligence that the Maharajah Lela, and six others implicated in the murder of Mr. Birch, the British resident, in the Malacca settioments some months ago, havo been sen- tenced to be hanged. It is thought probable that the sentence will be commuted, WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE BRITISH GRAIN TRADE, The Mark Lane Ezpress, in its weekly review of the British grain trade, says rain bas been the prevailing tharacteristic of the weather for the past weck, but wheat looks thriving and has not sulfered. Although Imports continue light, granary stocks are fair, with a slight tendency toward lower prices Toward the close of the week, with limited arrivals at Liverpool and London, a decided demand set in. Millers were more active buyers at prices, indi- cating a complete recovery of the depres- sion noticeablo early im _ the week. With the political question still in suspense sellers are confi- dent of further improvement. There has becn littlo alteration in spring corn, alshough decreased imports of maize and advanced values in America point toa tise. Exports show that the favor with which this corn is regarded on the Continent is unabated, indeed some improvement in values is noted with a more gen- eral demand. Floating cargoes shared the improved feeling. Malting and grinding descriptions of barley were in limited demand, and lower rates for the latter were accepted. The previous week’s decline in maize bas been fully recovered. MURDERED FOR MONEY. A STRANGE STORY OF A DOUBLE TRAGEDY— THE MURDERER COMMITS SUICIDE AND THR PLUNDER Is RECOVERED. (sy TELEGRAPH TO THR HERALD.) Atiaxta, Ga,, Deo, 25, 1876, A double tragedy in the adjoining county to ths croated a good deal of excitement here on last Wed- nesday night, Jim Jackson,,of Decatur, went to Jack Thompson's house at Stone Mountain, and at three v’elock in the morning decoyed Thompson from the house on the plea thata friend of his who intended leaving tor Texas early in the morning, wanted to ex- change $700 in gold for greenbac! par. The next morning Tuompson Was missing, and on Friday Jackson was arrested, Thompson's pistol aud about $30 in money, a twenty dolar bill which was identitied, was found on Jackson's person. Dn Saturday $650 of Thompson's money was found soncealed in Jackson’s house, and yesterday Thomp- yon’s body was found buried near Jacksou’s house, and it was proved that Jackson had dug the grave the evening before the murder was committed. Last night a mob was collected jor the purpose of lynebing, and the Sheriff made preparations to defend the jail with a posse of sixty nen. Jackson, foaring the mob or the consequences of the Jaw, committed suicide in the early part of the night by choking bimselt with a pocket handkerchicl. Hearing of Jackson's suicide the mob dispersed, grumbling at boing cheated out of 19 death sport, Much excitement still prevails, Roupess was highly respected and much loved al ' ald Wao kaew bin THE sIOUX CAMPAIGN. GENERAL CROOK'S RETURN TO FORT FETTER- MAN—ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE CRAZY HORSE'S BAND ABANDONED FOR THE PRESENT. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. | Camr ox Noata Fork or Breiterourcue. Dec. 21, Via Fort Ferteaaan, Dec. 25, 1876. General Crook anuounced, at a council with our Indian scouts here to-day, that the expedition would start homeward in the morning. We have rations for twelve days, and half forage for a week. THE PRESENT CAMPAIGN ABANDONED. Neither the Indians sent to locate Crazy Horse’s Villoge, nor those sent to Red Cloud to bring out more. Indian soldiers, joined us yet; and our present meagre stock of supplies, with the limited amount of transportation at the posts which are nearest us, will Not permit a further prosecution of the present cam- paign, Sinceour fight in the Big Horn Mountains small bands of Indian braves have been wandering about the country in our vicinity and keeping a watch on all our movements, a fact which tends to make surprise of the hostile Sioux by our troops a matter of extreme diMfculty, if not wholly impossible; evon it eur stock were in better condition and supplies for the men and animals were more plentiful. We are about four days’ march from Fort Reno, and shall probably be back at Fort Fetterman about the 29th inst FLORIDA, GOVERNOR STEARNS MUST GIVE UP HIS OFFICE— TRIAL OF GALLABER, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 25, 1876, Republicans in this end of the State are unanimous in the opinion that Governor Stearns must submit to | the decision of the Supreme Court and quictly turn over tho executive ofllce to Governor-clect Drew on next Tuesday. They see no way open by which they can get the caso betore the United States Court, and there is good authority for saying that he has been notified very plamly that he cannot look for support from the federal troops in making open resistance to the decision of the Supreme Court, It 13 believed by many that Governor Stearns has not hoped to retain his hold upon the State, but that he has been promised aconsulship of first importance in case Mr, Hayes is inaugurated. There is good authority for saying that the Governor’s ambition looks m that direction. Nothing is beard airect from Stearns, Gallaher’s trial for the publication of an obscence attack upon Mrs. W. E. Chandler will open to-morrow. LOUISIANA. DISCOVERY OF ALTERATIONS IN AFFIDAVITS SUBMITTED TO THE STATE RETURNING BOARD, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Mowrox, Dec, 25, 1876, It has cropped out, upon examination beiore the sub-committee here to-day, that affidavits, produced before the Returning Board and. appended to Senator Sherman’s Louisiana report, are essentially different from those originally sworn to before the magistrates of Ouachita parish, MR. ORTON’S DISOBEDIENCE OF THE COMMIT- TEE’S SUBPG:INA. New Orueays, Dec, 25, 1876. Messrs. Beebe and Joyce, ot the House sub-commit- tee, retarned from Baton Rouge to-day to attend a meeting of the tull cemmittee to-morrow, MR, ORTON’S CONTEMPT, In reply to Mr. Orton’s despatch to Mr. Morrison stating that he would not be present in New Orleans in obedience to the subpina, Mr. Morrison says he will communicate the fact to the House of Representatives; that it was believed this fact and others disclosed in the testimony of Mr. Barnes, telegraph manager at New Orleans, and Mr. Orton’s former communica- tions, showed a purpose on Mr. Orton’s part to binder the committee in its investigation, which the House might regard as being in contempt of ita authority. The excursion to the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi was abandoned on account of bad weather, INDIANA DEMOCRATS. THE COMING STATR CONVENTION—PROBABLE SPIRIT OF THE GATHERING. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Inpranapouts, Dec, 25, 1876 Tho democracy and Tilden liberals of Indiana held local conventions throughout the Staie on Saturday, the 234 inat., to select delegates to the State mass con. vention which is called to meet here January 8, Jack. son’s battle of New Orleans anniversary. This, in former years, was a great day for the Hoosier democ- racy, Onthe same day ‘Blue Jeans” Williams 1s to be inaugurated as Governor, and as Governor Hen- dricks’ successor, No doubt it will be a grand gather- ing of Governor Tilden’s friends in this State, unicss 9 satistaciory solution of the political complication shal! Rave been suggested before then, TONE OF THE COUNTY GATHERINGS. ‘Tho resolutions passed by the various local popular assemblages on Saturday conform to a general demand for Congress to take hold of the dilemma, and aro vehemently adverse to what 1s termed the republican assumption of autocratic and judicial powers inthe hands of the presiding officer of the Senate. VIEWS OF OUR NEW CONGRESSMEN, Tho two new democratic Congressmen from this State who will go into office next March are Thomas R, Cobb, of Vincennes, and Judge Bicknell, of New Al- bany. Each of those gentiemon presided over his home county convention, and the respective resolu- tiédns adopted in thoso meetings may fairly be assumed as an expression of their viows, The Vincennes convention demands that Con- gress, in concurrent convention of 1 two houses, “count the electoral vote as heretofore,” and closes in the following unambiguous laugu: “We utterly condemn as vicious and revolutionary tho theory advanced by the republican press and some leaders of the republican party, that the President of the Senate count the votes and declare who is elected, Tegardicss of the Senate and House of Kepresenta- tives.”? Thr ww Albany Convention deciares that len was elected, and should be inaugurated,” ana the democrats of the country were ready to as- sist Congress in every legitimate means to that end, Yhe animus of the convention, which is declared to be the finest of any demo- cratic assemblage ever convened in the county, can be clearest scen in the third and fourth resolu- tions, which were as iollows:—**That the wicked and traitorous scheme concocted to prevent the inaugura- tion of Tilden and Hendricks has only the active sympathy and support of federal officials and official expectante, who love office and plunder more than country; that this republic was not created for office- seeking and oflice-holding cormorants, and that it is not only a constitutional privilege, but the imperative duty ~of all patriotic citizens, to not only protest against the great crime attempted, but also to pledge themselves to support and defend overy lawful meas- ure to prevent the consummation of the threatened usurpation. ”? From ull indications the Indiana democracy will be hero by tens of thousands at toe 8th of January Con- } Vention. COMPROMISE DISCUSSED. The plan fora compromise adjustment, suggested by the Hrnaxp, of giving the House the election of the President and the Senate the Vice President meets with considerate favor, The warm friends and chai pions of Governor Hendricks would rather rejoice at such a dénouement, on the hypothesis that it would be a fortuitous transfer of their | fr irom the m- consequential Vice Presidency to tive duty of Premier or Seeretaryship of the Treasury. is probiem is being discussed on all hands. THE CONNECTICUT RIVER CLOSED. A SHEET OF SOLID ICE--A LIST OF THE VESSELS DETAINED. Hartrorp, Conn., Deo, 23, 1875, The Connecticut River is now hermetically sealod with solid sheet of ice, varying from six inches to a foot in thickness, and extending from this port clear down to below Essex, only five miles from Long Isiand Sound. The ice closed in about tho 1st of December, but on the Sth three Hartford tugs, owned by Brazos & Williams, forced a paseage to the sound after thre days of severe work, taking with the Hatuie Collins, of New Haven, and Hattie aod Sarah, of Marttor4, together with x barges, Warned by the be resheis and Leavy floes on ’ the cotd weather came on th: once, aud only the vessels named and a few others were cangbt. The only vessels now Jett in the river are at this point the schooner E. H. Williams and some barges and lowboats; at Middictown, towboat and barge Abram Bailey, of New York; Eewex, bi Linn, Charles J. Norton and Killen’ M. Bt all for New York, und schooners Robert 5 4 Russel, of Portland, Conn, The river is free irom ice at Saybrook Point, the mouth, and tue Hartiord and New York steamers have no troable in making landings. TheSaybrook Channel 1s reported to be deepening under the good effects of tho breal and heavy dratt vessels bave much less than Leretotore, the schooners | EO NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1876. WASHINGTON. Great Expectations as to the 8th of January Demonstration. MR CRONIN AND HIS ELECTORAL .VOTE. The Alleged Abstraction of a Treasury Package. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. * WasutxGtox, Dec, 25, 1876, THE 8TH OF JANUARY DEMONSTRATION EX- PECTED TO BE A VERY IMPOSING AFFAIR— PUBLIC MEETINGS IN CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES ON THAT DAY. Intelligence which reaches here from different parts of the country, East as well as West, shows that the 8th of January is likely to witness one of the most im- posing publte demonstrations this country has ever seen. Preparations are quietly making in nine or ten Northern States for public meetings to be held on that day, not only in the large cities, but in towns and vil- lages, by democrats to protest against a fraudulent or irregular counting in ofa President. It has become known that in several States and in many localities numbers of republicans who voted for Hayes and Wheeler have detcrmined to join in this protest and demand fair play and an honest count, There is not the least intention to break the peace, butit is meant that the protest shall be earnest and show that the people are attentively watching what is going on and are not asleep, Letters received here from different States by influ- ential men show that the constant reiteration by lead- ing republicans hero that the Vice Prestdent shall count and <leclare tho vote at all hazards and the echo Of this sentiment in republican organs produces great excitement and irritation on the public mind, the peo- ple thinking that this question should be settled by 3 committee of Congress and not by a predetermined partisan arrangement. ° ce OAET TREES. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. Wasntxaroy, Dec, 25, 1876. MR. CRONIN GETS RID OF HIS BURDEN—THE DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL VOTE OF OREGON IN THE CUSTODY OF HOTEL CLERKS. Mr. Cronin, the aemocratic elector from Oregon, re- turned to Wasbington last night suddenly. He has not yet delivered the electoral roturns of that State to the presiding officer of the Senate. He is stopping at the same hotel as Mr. Ferry, but has not culled upon him either at the hotel or the Capitol Since Cronin arrived here he has been carrying the electoral returns on bis" person, This afternoon he became fearful as to their safety and concluded to deposit them in the safe of the hotel. The envelope was unsealed and Cronin consulted his friends as to the advisability of closing it, He was convinced, however, that the hotel clerks were reliable and that all papers left with Shem would be rigidly guarded. Upon this assurance Cronin handed over the unsealed package of the Oregon electoral retyrns to their cus_ tody. + GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, Wasuixetox, Dec, 25, 1876. CHRISTMAS AT THE EXECUTIVE MANSION. There were a number of visitors at the Executive Mansion to-day, those calling being, with one or two exceptions, intimate personal friends of the President whose immediate family wore all with him in quiet enjoyment of the Christmas festivities. THE WRETCHED PAVEMENTS OF THE CiTY, Tho very bad condition of the pavements in this city for two or three days past has subjected several persons to misbaps, some of which nave beon of a very serious character. Several instances of heavy falls, producing sprains and in one or two cases broken limbs, occurred last night A gentieman named Clark, a member of a well known dry goods firm, while returning home from his place of business, slipped on the ice and broke a leg, and on Saturday night a carpenter named Witham Lawrie, while entering his residence, slipped upon the steps and fell, and was literally impaled upon the heading of the iron fence surrounding the premises. He died ina very few moments, A REPORTED LOSS OF A MONEY PACKAGE FROM THE TREASURY—THE OFFICIALS VERY RETI- CENT—THR AMOUNT SAID TO BE TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. There was a conference at the Treasury Department to-day between the Secretary of the Treasury, Treas- urer Wyman and Assistant Treasuror Gilfillan upon the subject of the lately reported discovery that an amotfht of money had been avstracted from a packago sent from the Treasury to the lilinois Natienal Bank at Chicago. The Treasury officials decline to give any information as to the course that is being pursued in the investigation of the reported loss, and Secretary Morrill says that it might be an act of gross injustice to mention where suspicion rests until it is clearly ascertained at what point the thoft occurred. The department also declines to give the amount of the Joss, or, in fact, any details concerning it, considering that the better course in the interests of justice and for the recovery of the stolen funds is that nothing should be mado pubiic as to the case before it, Very few of the clerke in tho cash room seem to be aware that another dsagreeable epivode should have appeared, and tho occurrence is exceedingly painful to the gentlemen in the bureau, all of whom were subjected to more or less mortification and es- pionage during the recent investigation of the Hal- lock robbery. itis assorted that with the present system of checks and the safeguards recently imaugu- rated in the cash room it is almost impossible that @ theft of this kind could happen. The amount of the loss is variously stated at from $8,000 to $20,000, Mr, Washburn, ex-chief of the government Secret Service, has been here for several days in the interest of the Illinois National Bank endeavoring to trace tho muney. SEVERE STORM IN VIRGINIA. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] Nonroux, Dec. 25, 1876. ‘We aro now having hore the severest weathor of the season, it having been snowing and sleeting for two days. None but the New York steamers can leave the harbor, A freight steamer which arrived here to-day from Baltimore reports encountering heavy ice and a fearfol storm raging on Chesapeake Bay. The railroad tracks are all blocked with snow and slect, and trains are delayed tor bours. The telegraph wires are pros- trated partly in every direction, and business genere aily is very soriously interrupted. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. A CAB WRECKED BY A BROKEN RAI.—RE- PORTED FATAL INJURY TO PASSENGERS, Crscrxxatt, Ob10, Dec, 25, 1876. A Times special says an eastward bound passenger train og the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and In- dianupolie Railroad, when near Bellefontame, Ohio, this morning, Was thrown trom the track by a broken rail, One passenger car Was turned completely over and every one of its occupants was injured; soma futally. It contained about tweuty passengers, whoso names are unknown, NOT £0 SERIOUS AS FIRST REPORTED. ‘ Cixcrxxati, Dee, 25. 1876, The railroad accident at Bellefontaine was not so sorious as was at first supposed. But few of the pas- songors were setivus!y iniured and none fatally. Tho following is a list of the injured:—Mr. and Mrs, Sayros, of Indianapolis; Mrs. Fuilmer and Mr, Collins and son, of Degraf, Ohio; George Snyder, of Potts- ville, Pa.; A. O'Mara, of Union City, Ind, and Miss Rogers, of Ashtabula, Ob1o. A PASSENGER STATED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED, Newncna, N. ¥., Dee, 25, 1876, A despatch has beon received here stating that W. G. Wood, city clerk, of Idaho Cuy, Idabo, was killed by a ratiway accident near Fort Wayne, Ind, on Sat- urday night, His r ives reside bere, and be was on bis way uither to spond the holidays, THEATRE PANICS. On the Verge of Another Calamity Yesterday. False Alarms in Washington and Newark. Wasmnctos, Dec. 25, 1876 The National Theatro this afternoon came very near being the scene of a dreadful tragedy in the audito- rium, The play was the same as that played at the Brooklyn Theatre—the “Two Orphans,” and it is a rather curious coincidence that this was the first time it has been put upon the boards sinco the great calam- ity at Brooklyn, A CRY OF FIRE ‘The facts are as follows:—During the second act a man in the gallery fell ina fit, The cry of ‘na fight” arose, which the audience mistook for a cry of *ta fire.” The ushers at once threw open all the doors of tho building, when a rush was made for the different means of oxit, The orchestra was directed to play for the purpo:e of diverting tho attention of the audience, which was unusually large, but the leader was absent, and several minutes elapsed before a note was heard, In the meantime the alarm became general all over the house, and in the effort to get out one or two women were throwa down and trampled upon. NO LIVES Lost. Fortunately no hives were lost or serious injuries in- flicted, About one-third of the house succeeded in gotting out and did not return, NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS, The National Theatre haa been recently examimed by the city authorities, and several improvements have been suggested, none of which have yet been made, During the temporary panic the company showed tho greatost presence of mind, and did ali it was possible to do to quiet the audicnce and allay the fare of those who were present, Washington is congratulating it- self to-night that it has escaped a possible calamity. A FALSE ALARM OF FIRE IN A NEWARK THEATRE CREATES A PANIC, The Nowark Opera House was crowded with peoplo yesterday afternoon, gathered to enjoy a Christmas entertainment by tho Kirally troupe. About a quarter past three a youngster in the audience mistook a sudden concentration of the calcium light on a scene for a blaze of fire, and shouted “Fire! fre!’ lustily. Instantly tho vast audience sprang to their fect, and the memory of the terrible Brooklyn calamity fresh im every one’s mind, began a fierce stampede from the place, It was in vain that the manager of the company rushed to the footlights and tried to quiet the terrified crowd by assuring them that the alarm was cutirely false. What increased the excitement was the prompt arrival of the fire engines tn response to an alarm sounded. The firemen did good service in reassuring the people that thero was not a spark of tire. Finally the audience realized the situation, returned to their seats and the perform- ance proceeded, In the first rush a woman and a littic boy were crushed badly but not fatally. The incident proved one thing satisfying to tne Newark public—that the theatre can be cleared of a full audience so rapidly that an occurrence thero like the Brooklyn horror is next to impossible. THREATENED RAILROAD STRIKE. MISUNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE MANAGERS OF THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY AND ITS LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS. . [wy TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] St, Aunaxs, Vt., Dec, 25, 1876. The probable strike of the locomotive engineers on the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada still continues to be the all absorbing topic of discuss on among tho railroad employés in this vicinity. The question hay- ing assumed such a serious attitude and so many contradictory stories having been circulated, the HekaLp representative has to-day visited soy- eral of the leading officials of the Vermont Central Railrosd here and conversed with them upon the question, To-day no information whatever has been received by the Central officials upon the subject. The request which was made of the Central company by the Grand Trunk officials, to have the Central engines haul the trains through to Montreal, has been complied with, and the engines upon all traing have run through to that city to day. Whether this request on the part of the Grand Trunk upon the Central 18 because they aro short of engineers cannot be ascertained, or whetber it arises trom the mass- ing their engineers upon tho western divisions of the roud, in anticipation of troable, GRIEVANCES COMPLAINED OF, ‘The engineers complain that the Grand Trunk Rail- road officials have within the past fortnizht discharged nearly one hundred engineers, amovg whom were some of the oldest and most trustworthy men upon the line, for the reason that they were members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, A CONVERENCE ASKED, Tho Chiet of that organization, P. 8, Arthur, of Cleveland, Ohio, has come 10 Montreal to represent tho Brotherbocd in a conference with Mr, Hickson, manager of the Grand Trunk. Mr. Hickson’s non-arrival at Montroal until Sunday morning, from New York, leads to the supposition that no conference has been held as yet. Mr. Hickson is a geutioman of very great determination, and he bas never recognized the right of the Brotherhood to meddle with or have any vorce whatever in the affairs of the railroad. [t ia predicted he will decline to meet the head centre of the organization, or in any manner recognize the order. Should this occur { strike will undoubtedly take place, agd may be ox- tod hour. 18 THERE DANGER TO “OUTSIDE”? ENGINEERS? An engineer of the Central Vermont line, nota member of the Brotherhood, requested to be excused from running into Montreal, as he was airaid of his Those who are members of the Brotherhood fused to run the trains through, and agers buve received offors trom com- petent engineers, both in und out of the organization, who are to-day lying idle, expressing their willing- ness to run trains into Montreal, or even go upon any portion of the Grand Trank Railway and run its trains, The engineers upon the Central Vormont Rail- road are considered the best corps of engineers in Now England, and General Superintendent Hobart and sev- eral other of the officials who were seen by the Hxratp correspondent anticipated no trouble among their em- ployés, and stand ready at any moment to extond to the Grand Trunk managers all aid in their power; but they will not send their men beyond the city of Aon. treal Thus the matter stands to-night. HOW GOGGINGS CAME TO GRIEF. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Newrorr, R. 1, Dec, 25, 1876, David Goggins was fatally injured this evening. Ho was locked up in acell at a police station, and evi- dently made up his mind to escape, as he had done scveral times betore. He knocked ofl a picce of board at the top of the iron grating, in frovt of the cell, ana then attempted to get his body out, He put his feet through first, but, losing his grip of the railing, he fell head downward and hung by his fevt, in which foe he was found by the Captain of Police. How jong he remained tn that situation no one knows, The boards were knocked away #8 soon as possible and ho was taken down. He was insensiltie, and to all appearances life was extinct. Dr. Mott was sum- Mmoned, who pronouncea him tatally injured, It was impossiblo to administer any gostoratives. EXPLOSION AND FIRE. DESTRUCTION OF THIRTY-FIVE BARRELS OF COAL OIL, Om. Crry, Pa., Doc, 25, 1876, At two o’clock P. M. to-day the boiler house of the American Transter Company's station took fire and by the explosion of the boiler, which was thrown against an iron tank coutaining about 15,000 es of oli, bursting the tank and setiing the vil on ire. The total loss of oil is avout 35,000 barrels. Five iron tanks were destroyed, two of which were owned by MeWhinney Brothers, two by Cochrane and one by the American Transier Company. There were also five Erie Railway boiler cars burned. The loss is est. mated at $200,000, which is partially covered by in- surance, The American Transier Company will com- mence rebuilding at once. TWO STORES DAMAGED. Newnvna, N. ¥., Dee. 25, 1976, A fire which occurred here yesterday damaged the stores of N. B, Beedo und J. 13, Birdsall to the extent of about $8,000, which 1s partly covered by iuswrance, SUICIDE OF AN INCENDIARY. Laconia, N. H., Dee, 25, 1876, Munroe Dickey, the incenaiary, committed suicide to-night by cutti THOUSAND Wixpsor, Vt, Dec. 25, 1876, Alonzo Thompson committed suicide jast night by shooting himself. LITERATURE, BOSTON BOOKS, POETRY AND POETS—THE TRANSLATION—NEW TEMPERANCE IDEA, Bostox, Dec, 25, 1876, It is refreshing at this season, when holiday books and magazines fall from the press in a shower, to find four volumes that have no reference to Christmas or New Year's, and contain no allusion to evergreen, holly berries or mistletoe, The first of the four 1s John Weiss’ translation of Goethe's “West-Easterly Divan,” published by Roberts Brothers, These poems, as any student of German knows, if neither the most valuable poems that the great author ever wrote, nor those which are the most likely to survive, are, when their history is considered, the most remarkable and the most characteristic, In 1815, on the very day of Waterloo, he found a copy of Von Hammer Purg- stall’s translation of the “Divan of Hafis," was greatly impressed by it, and deliberately set himself to Work to compose something in the same spirit, Ho was prepared for the task by the Oriental studies which he had been pursuing for years, with a view of abstracting bis mind from the politics and battles of the day, for botn of which he manifested a hearty hatred that his followers admire as fervently as his opponentscondemn it, When the poems in ‘Goethe's Divan” first appeared very few readers were able to decide wiether they were imitations or direct transia- tions, so closely had ne caught the tone and color of the Orient, and the mystic style of the poets, Still, the thought ana the topics upon which it oxercised itself was Western, and many of tho doctrines, aithough originally Persian bad long beon known in Kurope, 80 that tho name ‘West-Eastorly” expressed the charac- ter of tho work perfectly. The volame is divided into twelve books, respoct- ively entitled the ‘Book of the Singer,” “Book of Hats,” ‘Book of Love,” “Book of Reflections,’’ “Book of Ill Humor,” “Book of Sayings,” “Book of Timur,” ‘Book of Suleika,” ‘Book of the Cup Bearer,” “Book of Parabies,” “Book of the. Parsee” and “Book of Paradise.” Mr. Weiss bas translated the poems on tho principle of giving their form as well as their contents, “It would have been casier,’’ be says, ‘to unravel some of tho compact sets of hnes into distinct versos, to dilute strong flavored verses by Paraphrage, to tamper with Goethe’s terrible sim. plicity, break up his crystals”? ‘*No verse, no line has been omitted,’ Tho ‘Book of Suleika,” in the opinion of Goethe himself, is the fullest in the collection, and coucern- ing its history Mr. Weiss gives many interesting de- tails in the notes, Its chief inspirer was Marianna Jung, @ lady who left tho Franktort stago at soven- teen to marry the Gehoimrack von Willemer. Gootho became acquainted with her in 1814, when she was thirty-tour years of age, and he was thirty years her senior, Herman Grimm describes her as one of those wonderful women who seem to reproduce in our day tho charm and the influence of Aspasia, ‘Her life, her freshness, her song, her poetic sensibility, her genuine good will, wero boloved by Goethe,” Of him “she desired nothing more than the silent con- sciousness of his esteem and attachment.” Her cor- Trespondence with Goethe was deposited in the Frank. fort library, with instructions that it should not be published for twenty years. It will appear in 1879, and then much that ts interesting concerning the “Book of Suleika” will bo divulged. She contessed to Grimm that she wrote several of the poems pub- lished in this. following, which deceived Ger- many, is ono of them, and may be found interesting by those who think Goethe inimitable:— SULEIKA, Ab, west wind, how sore I envy ‘Theo those moist wings sailing by! For thou canst report my pining, Out of absence walt a sigh, In the breast a quiet longing Wakes at motion of thy wing; Tears on flower, biliand meadow In thy breath are gathering, Yot thy mild and quiet blowing Cools tho swollen lids that burng Ab, for sorrow I should perish 1f IL hoped not his return, Haston, then, to my beloved, Speak in sottness to his heart, Yet, take care not to afflict nim, So conceal from bim my smart, Say to him, but gay it lowly, That his Jove is all my lite; Joyous touch of both he gives me When his nearness ends their strife, » It is impossible to give any idea of the contents of the book by quotation, The verses are wise amd scn- tentions, witty and graceful, or thoy would not be Gocthe’s; but the songs aro in many keys, and only reading will make one master of them. They are to be studied, not skimmed; for they were written when Goethe's lightest word had the weight of long ex- porience and deep thought. ‘There are few authors whose lives differ more widely than that of the Teutou sage and of Franz Griliparzer, whose play of ‘‘Sappho,”’ 4s translated by Elien Froth- Ingham, appears at the samo time as the ‘West- Easterly Divan’? While ono missed nothing that makes life happy, the other diod in 1872 at the ago of eighty-one, -having nevor been rich enough to marry the woman he loved; having published nothing but eight pla; having waited until he bad completed fourscoro ye: of his lito before he recqived a public testimonial of his respect. Vienna has seldom seon a costlier fu- neral than bis, and his plays form part of the reper- tory of the German theatres ; but bis days wero lonely, “Sappho” is a five act tragedy, which begins by show- ing Sappho as tho idol of the peopte and of Phaon, painted by Grillparzer as a perfectly selfish youth, who, almost 1m the hour when assured of the love of the poet, turns his eyes upon one of her slaves, Me- lita, The pair fice, but are pursued and brougnt back by the angry people, and Sappho flings herseif trom the cliff im accordance with the legend. Rhamnes, a faithful slave, 18 the real chorus of the play, seeming to understand all the characters, and alternately set- ting the nobility of his mistress, the woakness of Mo litta and the perfidy of her lover before the reader. “Tho Wine Bibbers’ Temperance Society,” published anonymously by Lee & Shepard, has beon waiting sev- eral months for a chance to appear, and now comes simaltaneously with the “Barton Experiment”? Tho constitution of the society explains itself: — In the first piace, the agsuciation should be called “The Liberal Temperance Society,” and | think, says 1s originator, the name explains itselt; if it don’t the document will, Int cond place, any man, woman ild may join the society by aes the constitu- ud paylug $1 a year (! say a dollar a year because we value ouly what we pay for), y man may join the society and continue bis membership, though be gets drunkevery day im the week, just a3 be may bea member ol our religious society and serve the devil six days out of yevon, Tho object of t prowotion of temperance; aad meetings for this pur- pose sbail be held every Monday evening. The tnstru- mentalities of the society shall be puuiic addresses, discussion by the embers aad others, the circulation cf temperance titerature, and personal efforts among the intemperate, Piedges shall be furuished for those > | who wish to sign them; but the privileges of the members shall be in no manner affected by their sign- jug. or relusing to sign, the pledge. Memvers and otners Who may attond the meetings may pledge them- se. ves to abstain from (he ase of beer, wine or liquor, or avy or ail of these, for a week, a month, a year—ior such lime at they please, Only one person shall sign the same paper, Winch sbali coutain a blank for tho time the piedge 16 given. These pledges shall be filed away, to be returned or renewed at the end of expired terms, a8 required by the signers, Tne result of this novel plan of organization is that the men who began by insisting upon being mod- erate drinkers are so disgusted with the arguments of the confirmed topers that they become totat absti- nence men, and in time the topers follow their ox- ample, and at last everybody signs except one man, who vows that he will still represent the unpledgea laborer in the cause of temperance. The book is a very good little tract, and as 1¢ has but seventy-six pages hardly pretends to be anything more, «Sunshine in the Soul,”’ a collection of poems made by the author of “Quiet Hours,” that is to say by Mrs. Tileston, is, its author says, composed of poems brought together from many sources, old and new, with the hope that their notes of encouragement and cheertulness may help to carry strength and courage into daily life, The verses aro undenominational in character and chosen with great tasto, LITERARY CHAT. Tho January Atlantic will contain poems by Long- fellow, Lowell, Stedinan, Bayard Taylor and “Hl. H.” Professor J, B. Greenough, of Harvard, contributes an extravaganza founded on the four and twenty black birds of the nursery rhymes ‘This is written for pri- vate theatricais, and deserves to be in the hands of al- the histrionic amateurs for use in Christmas festivil ties, Mr. George P. Lathrop hasa@ rather tragic and patbetic story, called “Left Out,” about a poor man living in winter on the New York streeta, Then there 3 a song by Bayard Taylor, with music by J. K. Paine, ee and tho first instalment of the new “Contributors # Club,” the authors of which are to remain strictiy anonymous. Scribner, Armstrong & Co, have ready a new edition of Eugéne Schuylor’s ‘Turkistan’’ for $5, It is just like the first and more expensive edition, except thas the margins are not so wide. The following stanzas, entitled ‘Essipoff,”’ will ape pear in the old cabinet of the January Scribner :— & What ts her playing like? 1 ask—while dreaming here beneath her music's power, ’Tis like the leaves of some sweet flower Which grows on a strong tree whose roots, oh, deep they sink, Deep ia the ground, that flower's sweot life to drink, i What is her playing like? ‘Tis like a bird Who sings in a wild wood, and pover knows ‘That its loue melody is heard By wandering mortal, who forgets his heavy woes, Lippincott's for January begins the ninetecath voh ume of that magazine. Mr. Sidney Lanier has one of his characteristic poems inthe number. Mr. Lauter, by the way, isa musician os weil as a poet, and plays the flute with great sweetness, A Bridgeton (N. J.) young lady of only sixteon sums mers bas written a number of poems and several books, She is still at school, which shows her good sense, George McDonald's *‘Marquis of Lossie”’ will be the serial of Lippincolt’s during the coming year. The Revue des Deux Mondes, of November 1, has @ carefully written articie on the Indian races of South Awerica, their origin, their languages and their fusure by Hemeil Dureaux, Among the works of Goothe not yet rendered inte Enghasb is the “West-Kasterly Divan,” which bas now been translated by John Weiss, with an introductios and notes, and which will appear from Roberts Brom press in Boston, Mr. Ruskin’s forthcoming book on Venico, where he is now residing, will be a kind of guide to the master pieces of art in that erty. The plethora of literary laborers in London 18 exbibe ited in @ column or two of advertisements in thé London Atheneum olfering leaders, letters trom Londoms books, &c. The Chaucer Society of London, established in 1868 has been compelled to reprint its #ix-text edition of Chaucer, the aemand having exhausted the supply. Tho art of being happy has formed tho subject of many an essay, but it takes a Frenchman, Alphonse Karr, to wit, to produce a novel with the novel title, “L) Art d’Etre Matheureux.” Under the title, “Valérie, Roman Américain,” M. Du Quesnoy bas translated a part of ‘Miss Dorothy's, Charge,”’ Mr. Frank Lee Bonedict’s weil known novel, ‘The great French work on ceramics, “Histoire Gé- pérale de la Faionce Ancienne Frangaise et Etrangére,* by Mr. Ris-Paquot, has been completed at Amtens in, two great folios, with many colored plates. Tho price is 300 franca, MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT, Wak DrvartMent, Ovrics ov THK CHIK¥ SIGNAL OFviceR, Wasainctox, Dec, 26—1 A, M, Indications, For New England, cloudy weather and snow, with northeast to southeast winds, falling barometor and @ slight rise in temperature. For the Middle States, threatening weather and snow, with faliing barometer, a slight riso in temperae ture and casterly winds during the day; winds shilt- ing to southerly and westerly, with rising barometer and clear, colder weather in the southern portio! during the night. 7 For the Atlantic and Gulf States, generally cloudy, decidedly cold weather, with northerly to wesertly winds, and, east of tho Lower Missouri, rising teme perature and light rains, For Tennessee and the Obio Valley, generally cloudy woather, aud, in the eastern portions, light snow, with northwest to southwest winds, rising, followed by falling baromoter and stationary or slightly rising teme perature. For the lake rogion, light snow and no decided change in temperature, with light variabio winds, stae tionary or slowly rising barometer in the southern por. tion and faliing barometer in the eastern portion, fole Jowed during the afternoon or evening by clearing weather ip tho western portion, For tho Upper Mississippt and Lower Missouri vale Jeys, northerly winds, shifting to northeast and south cast, partly cloudy weather and occasional snow, tha temperature remaining below freezing. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, Tho following record will show the changer in th@ temperature for the past twonty-four hours, in come parison with the corresponding date of last year, @ indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacys HeRaLp bean BAM. ceee 6A. M. 9A. M 12 M. Average temperature yesterda; os Averago temperature tor gorresponding date last AN IRATE FATHER, Emil Seel, of No. 115 Third stroot, went into a Inger beer saloon last night and shortly afterward a man en- tered brandishing a knife, who rushed at Seel, The latter beat a hasty retreat to the street, pursued by his assailant, when Seol ran to Fire? avenue, where Officer Boylston interepted the pursuer, According to the story of the man who had the knife, who gave his name as Max Conrad, taker, of No, 118 East Third street, Scel had used language defam. atory to the character of his daughter Mary, aged nine. teen years. In the tion hoase, when Seel made the complaint of attempted felonious assault, it was with much difficulty that the officers restrained Coors who was without coat and vest, from making an upon him. Conrad was locked up. SUDDEN DEATH. Bridget Leddy, a homeless woman, yesterday em tered the house of Mrs, Mountjoy, at No. 67 Olives street, and died thore suddenly without medical av tendance, STILL FIGHTING FOR LIFE, At tho Bellevuo Hospital last evening the condition of Mary Keily was reported to be improving. The physicians have not yet attempted to probe fer the bullets which are lodged in her body. FIRE ON FIFTH AVENUE. A firo occurred last evening in the brown stone 164 Fifth avenue, occupied by Mrs. Wilkes, Her loss could not be ascertained, but , which is owned by Sirs, J. W. Budd: sage tained $1,000 damage, covered, it is said, by insure ance. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Assistant Postmaster General E. W. Barber is at the Gilsey House. Judge Ransom Balcom, of Binghame ton, is atthe Astor House. Congressional Delegate George Q@ Cannon, of Utah, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Rustem Effendi, of the Turkish Legation at Washington, is atthe Albemarle Hotel. Judge Sam. uel D, Faulkner, of Dansville, N. Y., is at the Hof. man House. LIKE OIL UPON TROUBLED WATERS IS TRH Influence of Hat. Hoxny of HomEHOUN® Axi cold, Pixx's Tootmacnk A—BENNETT BUILDING. FIREP ROO} F. LOCATED ON NASSAU, N AND FULTON engeone AND WELL HEATED OFFIC! BS LET ON sere RRASONABLE TERMS, UITABLE FOR BANKERS’ AND INSURANCE OFFICES, “THE PREMISE: A COUGH NEGL conseqnences. Port ALL MEMBERS OF THE STOCK AND GuLD Boards, who have hats » little the worse for laxt Saturday's ted to call on McOUE BROTHE Wall st., and have them jiday styles of Hats, LAWYERS’, APPLY 6: exchanged at onc: COMFORT, H , ECONOMY, —KEEP’S NIGHT Snrats, extra lon tor 84, $1 each; best quality, KEKI'S Suits, 571 Broadway, DON'T LOSE R HAIR,—CHEVALIER’S Lire ror Tnx Hate restoros gray hair perfectly, stops its falling out at once, increases its growth rapidly and maker the hair beantitul,” Sold by all druggists ew and desirable style in Dressing Robes and Jacke: rt ms sty! ing ockots. slile, MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY } YEARY Bay Maesnnt at OLL'S, the tailor, Come and see beantifully decorated store, 145 Bowery, between ce] and Broome. LARD ER A yr ri pTOMEROY'S TRUSSAS ARE BY FAR THE BRST, in ses POMEROY TRUSS COMPANY, 746 Brosaway, SODA WATER APPARATUS FOR MAKING sorated veriise MATTEEBWS, ota ana ‘a ‘